Deep courtyard

Qiangzi couldn't see that all the attention was on Huang Yuan, so he hurriedly led Pu Jiang to sit down, and began to invite everyone to drink, and brought the topic to entertainment and the business progress of various companies' cooperation. .

Huang Yuan still couldn't accept the scene just now, especially that Pu Jiang didn't expose the fact that he knew him on the spot, which made him even more uneasy, and went back to the corner just now, trying to wake up and plan what to do in the future.

After a while, Chen Ziji came over and punched him unceremoniously: "I haven't seen you for two months, how can I look like a fool (fool), I don't care what happened to your family, anyway, the wind and waves are here, how can you just now?" His mother looks like a countryman who has never seen the world, huh? Brother's face is going to be wiped out by you!"

——No matter how embarrassing it is, I am losing my job seriously now!

"Qiangzi has always been so fake (pretentious), today he is giving Brother Jiang face, he didn't bother you very much, he used to always look for trouble like this (much ado about nothing), and I have never seen you as boring as today ah!"

——You have to be cowardly, bro!Now all my work bonuses are in the hands of that master. If he says a word, my whole family will have to drink Northwest Wind!

Huang Yuan could only grit his teeth and swallow these words in his stomach. His mind is very confused now. At first he wanted to stay and find a chance to apologize to Pu Jiang, but the other party's current attitude clearly shows that he is pretending to be acquainted for the first time. , and didn't mention the projects that are already in progress. Now that I'm doing it, I'm slapping myself and the company, and it may embarrass the other party.Don't you apologize, how can this boss who has to be courteous to the bosses of the company and this group of dudes give up so easily?If he escaped today, he may have consequences waiting for him in the future.

Seeing that Huang Yuan was distracted again, Chen Ziji was so annoyed that he stuffed a wine glass into his hand: "I've spent so much time drooling, you listened to me, now I'll give you a clear hint (hint), go over and give me a respect, don't let me These noisy (watching) people look down on you. If you screw up, go to the corner of Yaoni (the corner you can’t see), and don’t let me see you again! Don’t talk about Lei Lei in the future, even your whole family Kneel down and beg me, I won't help you anymore."

Originally, seeing Huang Yuan's listless look, Chen Ziji already wanted to give up on him, and wanted to drive him away before he could embarrass himself, but as soon as he sat next to Huang Yuan, he keenly felt a sharp gaze sweeping him from time to time. When they came to this corner where there were only the two of them, Huang Yuan was so buried in his thoughts that he probably didn't pay attention at all.

Even if he met the interested eyes, the other party did not avoid it, and even nodded and smiled at him. Although Chen Ziji was surprised, he had an idea in his heart.

And Qiang Zi, who was sitting next to Pu Jiang, naturally noticed the eye contact between Chen Ziji and Pu Jiang, and then saw Huang Yuan reluctantly walking towards them with a wine glass, his eyes were full of disdain: Just because of you now With this identity, how dare you flatter me?

"Brother Jiang, you don't know, Huang Yuan's family is the Huang family that collapsed two years ago. His father is paralyzed in the hospital now, and his brother has gone in. He can't get out in ten or eight years. He has nothing at all. It's gone." Before Huang Yuan approached, Qiang Zi whispered in Pu Jiang's ear as if telling a joke.

Huang Yuan saw Qiangzi's obviously provocative eyes nailed on him, and he knew what Qiangzi said to Pu Jiang without guessing. He tightened his hand holding the crystal wine glass. If it was just an ordinary glass, it might be broken on the spot.In the past, he and Chen Ziji couldn't understand Qiangzi, a big man who was big and thick, but he always liked to chew his tongue like a woman.Huang Yuan frowned and looked at Pu Jiang again. The other party had a relaxed expression, but there was nothing special about it, and he didn't know if Pu Jiang had heard Qiang Zi's words clearly, which made him even more uncertain.If Pu Jiang looked contemptuous when he heard about his family's situation like everyone else, he was used to it and knew what to do.

"Brother Jiang, here's a toast!" Huang Yuan walked up to him and raised his glass respectfully.

"Tch, I'm ashamed to offer you a respect with just such a small amount of bottomless wine, and Mr. Huang looks down on our brother Jiang too much." Qiangzi booed together with his attendants.

Huang Yuan lowered his eyes and looked at his standard one-third cup of alcohol. Under the blurred light, the swaying red wine was very attractive.

Huang Yuan's calmness made Qiangzi even more upset, and with a wink, the people around him hurriedly stood up and filled Huang Yuan's glass, a typical Chinese nouveau riche's way of drinking red wine - waste!No product!

"Do it! Little Huang is the most forthright!" Qiangzi began to boo.

In the past, this was just the amount to quench his thirst for Huang Yuan, but his self-cultivation and taste from childhood would never spoil good red wine like this, which is why he has always looked down on Qiangzi.In the past two years, the nightlife has long been changed to work and study, and I seldom go to parties or entertainment. If I drink like this, my stomach will definitely not be able to bear it.But Qiangzi saw that Huang Yuan wanted something from Pujiang, so he deliberately kept him from stepping down.

Huang Yuan sighed, and said: "Brother Jiang, you can do whatever you want, I will do it first!" After speaking, he raised his head, raised his glass, and persuaded himself to drink the red wine like grape juice in one go.

A large amount of full-bodied red wine with thick tannins and strong taste passes through the throat, passes through the esophagus, and soon reaches the empty stomach.Due to frequent overtime work and irregular diet in the past two years, Huang Yuan has never recovered from gastric ulcers. Within half an hour, he would start to have stomach pains.

Before he opened his mouth to back down, the second cup was already filled.

"Brother Yuanzi, this is the first time you've seen Brother Jiang. Just now Brother Ji said that Brother Jiang is your senior, so you have to drink three cups in a row to be sincere. Come on, come on, don't stop while you're motivated!" Qiangzi smirked. How could he let Huang Yuan go so easily.

three cups?A whole bottle is just two full glasses.

Huang Yuan watched the overflowing purplish red wine flow across the cup wall, and the wine cup vaguely reflected Pu Jiang sitting beside him. The sacrifice-like despair had surpassed the sense of humiliation that Qiangzi and the others had brought him, and he looked at him indifferently. All of this, and the Pujiang, which seemed to be out of the way, made him feel even more like falling into an ice cellar.

The mouth of the cup rested on her tightly closed lips, Huang Yuan counted down to 321 in her heart.

"Wait a minute." The person who had nothing to do with himself said, "You put my designer down, and want me to talk to an alcoholic later?"

Although the words were said with a smile, everyone present felt that there was nothing joking about them at all, as if he was really going to discuss the project with Huang Yuan seriously, a group of joking expressions froze in embarrassment.

There was a bang in Huang Yuan's head, is it really not that easy to get past it?

Qiangzi, who was the closest, saw Huang Yuan's body shaking obviously. Based on his understanding of Huang Yuan, the glass of red wine just now would not have made Huang Yuan unsteady so quickly. Then he contacted Pu Jiang and Chen Ziji just now. The unexplained eye contact between the three of Huang Yuan made Qiangzi believe that there must be something tricky between Huang Yuan and Pujiang.

So he slapped his head immediately, and said very wittily: "Yes, yes, I forgot, why don't I ask someone to open a quieter room for Brother Jiang to talk to you?" Yuan blinked, and was satisfied to see the panic in the eyes of the little Mr. Huang, who had always been aloof. He thought he had caught Huang Yuan's little braid and felt even more proud.

Pu Jiang nodded briskly and stood up: "Then thank you in advance, and prepare some refreshments for us."

Pu Jiang's impatientness made Qiangzi confirm the dirty thoughts in his heart: No wonder he didn't like those [-]th-line star models that he called before, ha ha.

At this time, Huang Yuan didn't care about Qiangzi's narrow-minded thoughts, only worried about what to say to Pu Jiang later, and followed him into the next room like a hero.

Chen Ziji pulled Qiangzi and asked, "Where are you taking him?"

"Just next door, brother Jiang said he wanted to talk to brother Yuanzi." Qiangzi smiled wretchedly.

"Can't talk here? Don't play around with me (beating around the bush)." Chen Ziji frowned, very upset that Qiangzi had made his own decisions, and he was the most troublesome when something happened out of sight.

"Brother Ji is indeed Brother Yuanzi's good brother, why don't you go and rescue him? Whether it's a false show (monger) or a false name (fake name), we'll see if he gets on the road."

Qiangzi naturally saw that Chen Ziji was not really worried about Huang Yuan, so he spoke recklessly:

"Brother Ji asked him to come over to toast, doesn't that mean it too? You shake Lingzi (hint), and I pick Lingzi with him (understanding), we are both men, what is hypocritical, he can't suffer much if he is light-hearted (showing off)! What's the big deal, the two of us can help him negotiate a little bit (raise the price) to make Brother Jiang satisfied, so he can't live a more comfortable (comfortable) life than the previous two years?"

"..." Of course, Chen Ziji couldn't pull the two people out after they entered the box, so he could only sit in the original box and wait.

"Tsk tsk, I didn't expect Brother Jiang to be so good. Huang Yuan's forehead bone hit the ceiling today." Qiang Zi also sat down and had a drink, sighing.

Chen Ziji turned his head and glared at Qiangzi. What he was worried about was that if Huang Yuan's natural stubbornness committed a crime, but no one could stop him. Back then, everyone thought that the little Mr. Huang who only knew how to eat, drink, and play was hiding abroad. Dare to come back, or go back to China to beg for food, Huang Yuan refused to ask for anyone, passed the recruitment test of W Architecture, whose annual elimination rate is as high as 98%, and privately received a lot of architectural design. I heard that even the typesetting of small advertisements on the side of the road, the P pictures of wedding photos, and the retouching pictures of Taobao products are all done by others. It is hard for one person to carry the livelihood of a large family.

As for their former so-called brothers, before Huang Yuan's father fell down, Huang Yuan came to ask for help several times, mainly for his brother's affairs, but they were all rejected by them either indifferently or maliciously. , some people are afraid of causing trouble and being implicated, most of them are waiting to watch the excitement and even step on it again. People from a family like theirs have known since they were young that they should put their interests first in everything they do, so there is no real sense of justice .Even Chen Ziji himself was warned by his family not to associate with Huang Yuan again. At first, he felt a little guilty facing his brother who grew up with him, but after a long time, he became numb.

Huang Yuan received a few stares and stopped coming, because he was once like them.

On this point, Chen Ziji still respects Huang Yuan as a model.

People from the Huang family, no matter how much they are pampered, still have the gene of toughness, they are not easy-to-knead crisp peaches (weak and incompetent), and when the time comes to offend Pujiang head-on, the group of them will definitely be implicated, only this simple-minded The Qiangzi thought that sending people in would be all right.

Encountering this situation today can be regarded as my own path (great ability, irony, expressing dissatisfaction), Chen Ziji can only pray that Pujiang really finds Huang Yuan to discuss the project, and after two years of hard work in human relationships, Huang Yuan, Things can be smoother.He resented Qiangzi's hasty self-assertion, and he didn't even have time to help Huang Yuan find a way (to correct his thinking and make people compromise).

The author has something to say: I made a note of some Shanghai slang